Marine spatial planning is an important tool to concretize the "National Master Plan"

On October 6, in Ha Long city, the Central Propaganda Department coordinated with the Quang Ninh Provincial Party Committee to organize the October Reporters Conference. Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department Phan Xuan Thuy attended and chaired the conference.

Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department Phan Xuan Thuy (center) attended and chaired the conference. Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Le Minh Ngan (far left) attended and reported on the National Marine Spatial Planning for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050.

Attending the conference were comrade Le Minh Ngan, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment; comrade Nguyen Que Lam, Deputy Head of the Central Steering Committee for External Information, Director of the Department of External Information and International Cooperation, Central Propaganda Department; comrade Le Dinh Tinh, Director of the Department of Foreign Policy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and comrades who are Heads of Propaganda Departments of provinces and cities nationwide.

On the side of Quang Ninh province, there were comrade Dang Xuan Phuong, Deputy Secretary of Quang Ninh Provincial Party Committee; Cao Tuong Huy, Acting Chairman of Quang Ninh Provincial People's Committee and leaders of units of Quang Ninh province.

Comrade Nguyen Que Lam, Deputy Head of the Central Steering Committee for External Information Affairs, Director of the Department of External Information and International Cooperation, Central Propaganda Department attended the Conference.

At the conference, the Reporters informed about the local situation; the topic of Vietnam's marine spatial planning; and the results of the State visit to Vietnam by US President Joe Biden.

Making Vietnam a strong maritime nation, rich from the sea

In his report at the Conference, Deputy Minister Le Minh Ngan briefly presented the National Marine Spatial Planning for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050. The introduction included 9 main contents: The role and position of the National Marine Spatial Planning; Approaches and methods for formulating the National Marine Spatial Planning; Basis for formulating the National Marine Spatial Planning; Scope of the National Marine Spatial Planning; Key issues to be addressed; Viewpoints, goals, and visions of the Planning; Development orientations for sectors, fields, and coastal and island areas; Functional zoning and zoning of marine space use; Solutions for implementing the Planning and list of priority projects.

Deputy Minister Le Minh Ngan presented a summary of the National Marine Spatial Planning for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050.

Deputy Minister Le Minh Ngan informed about the National Marine Spatial Planning (NSP), this is one of three national plans submitted to the National Assembly. NSP is a multi-sectoral, comprehensive plan, orienting the exploitation and use of marine and island resources in a sustainable manner. The plan is established based on the approach of allocating and arranging marine space for sectors and fields of activity. The plan is of great significance, creating an organic unity in the country's development planning system, between mainland, sea and airspace, promoting socio-economic development, protecting the environment and ecosystems, contributing to maintaining national sovereignty.

The National Planning and Development Plan has applied a systematic and integrated, interdisciplinary - inter-regional planning approach, based on ecosystems, landscapes, adaptation, towards a blue ocean economy, sustainable development, multi-scale, from bottom up and top down.

The planning aims to perfect the institutions and policies for implementing the planning: building and implementing a set of national criteria for a strong sea and rich from the sea; building regulations to handle overlapping areas and conflicts in the exploitation and use of marine space; building and promulgating policies to develop a model combining economic, social and environmental protection, marine conservation with ensuring national defense and security at sea; ….

The planning is expressed in 04 viewpoints: Ensuring a long-term, comprehensive vision to meet the goals of the Strategy for sustainable development of Vietnam's marine economy to 2030, vision to 2045 and the 10-year Socio-Economic Development Strategy 2021-2030; consistent, unified, and synchronized with the National Master Plan and the National Land Use Plan.

Delegates attending the Conference took a souvenir photo (from right to left): Comrade Nguyen Que Lam, Deputy Head of the Specialized Department, Central Steering Committee for External Information Work, Director of the Department of External Information and International Cooperation, Central Propaganda Department; Comrade Vuong Ngoc Ha, Head of the Propaganda Department of Ha Giang province; Comrade Tran Thi Thanh Huong, Head of the National Assembly Delegation, Head of the Propaganda Department of An Giang province; Comrade Le Huu Tho, Head of the Propaganda Department of Khanh Hoa province.

Based on the foundation of natural conditions, marine and island ecosystems, the needs of industries, fields and localities with sea create momentum for socio-economic development, culture, environmental protection, marine conservation, ensuring national defense and security; ensuring sustainable development on the basis of green growth, harmony between conservation and development, responding to climate change.

Marine socio-economic development is based on the method of comprehensive management and sustainable exploitation and use of marine and island resources, combining rational and effective use of resources for focused and key investments, enhancing transparency, responsibility and participation of stakeholders in the management, exploitation and use of marine space.

Maintain the function, structure, resilience, and carrying capacity of ecosystems and marine regions and areas; ensure the ability to provide essential products and services of ecosystems and marine environments for human life and the development of marine economic sectors; preserve values, promote historical traditions, and marine cultural identity while building a cohesive and ocean-friendly society.

The planning aims to create a foundation for rapid and sustainable development of the marine economy; ensure national defense and security, maintain sovereignty, sovereign rights and national jurisdiction at sea; protect the environment, preserve biodiversity and cultural values, and gradually turn Vietnam into a strong maritime nation, rich from the sea.

Quang Ninh changes development method from "brown" to "green"

At the Conference, Comrade Cao Tuong Huy, Acting Chairman of the People's Committee of Quang Ninh province, said that as a comprehensive growth pole of the Northern region, Quang Ninh province has achieved important, comprehensive and outstanding results in all fields. For 7 consecutive years, maintaining a high and stable growth rate (GRDP) above double digits; the economic scale has increased rapidly, estimated to reach 312,420 billion VND in 2023, an increase of 1.5 times compared to 2020. The economic structure has shifted positively towards sustainability: The industrial and construction sector accounts for 50.9%; the service and product tax sector accounts for 43.9%; the agricultural, forestry and fishery sector accounts for 5.2% of the economic structure; Growth quality has improved, average labor productivity has increased from 309 million VND/person in 2020 to 458.5 million VND/person in 2023 (an increase of more than 1.5 times)...

Comrade Cao Tuong Huy, Acting Chairman of Quang Ninh Provincial People's Committee spoke at the Conference

In recent years, Quang Ninh province has been determined to strongly innovate the thinking of sustainable development, green growth, and inclusiveness; actively transform the development method from "brown" to "green"; proactively, creatively, and resolutely restructure the economy in accordance with the new context, especially in the fields of industry, services, public investment, and promote economic restructuring in a positive and sustainable manner... Implementing the motto of "taking public investment to lead private investment"; focusing capital on driving projects to promote the leading role and seed capital of state resources, and maximally mobilizing social resources.

In the first 9 months of 2023, the GRDP economic growth rate is estimated at 9.88%, ranking 4th in the country, 2nd in the Red River Delta; striving to achieve a growth rate of gross regional domestic product (GRDP) of over 10%, total state budget revenue in the area reaching over 53,062 billion VND. Complete many important goals of the entire 2020 - 2025 period on cultural - social development, people associated with improving the quality of people's lives, especially in mountainous, border and island areas.

Promoting Vietnam - US relations to develop to a new level

Regarding the State visit to Vietnam by US President Joe Biden from September 10-11, 2023, Director of the Department of Foreign Policy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Le Dinh Tinh informed about the spirit of putting the past behind, overcoming differences, promoting similarities, and looking towards the future; The results of the Vietnam - US comprehensive partnership over the past 10 years have been constantly consolidated and expanded, serving the interests of the people of the two countries, for peace and prosperity in the region and the world.

Director of Foreign Policy Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Le Dinh Tinh

The visit also demonstrates Vietnam's consistent emphasis on developing relations with the United States, promoting cooperation results and continuing to promote the development of Vietnam-US relations to a new level, on the basis of fundamental principles of bilateral relations, including the principle of respecting international law, the United Nations Charter, political regime, independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of each country.

Closely follow the Central's information and propaganda orientation

Concluding the Conference and orienting the propaganda work in the coming time, Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department Phan Xuan Thuy requested the Propaganda Departments of provincial Party Committees, city Party Committees, Party Committees directly under the Central Committee; Central Committees of socio-political organizations; reporters at all levels and grassroots propagandists to focus on propagating the following key contents:

Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department Phan Xuan Thuy concluded the Conference.

Regarding Vietnam's marine spatial planning, based on the information and data provided by Mr. Le Minh Ngan, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department Phan Xuan Thuy emphasized the need to propagate: Marine spatial planning is of great significance to countries with seas; Marine spatial planning is an important tool to concretize the "National Master Plan"; Marine spatial planning is a multi-sectoral type of planning, established for the first time in Vietnam; Marine spatial planning is comprehensive, established according to a spatial approach, aiming to allocate and arrange marine space for sectors, fields of activity, information, and input data for complex, comprehensive, and multi-sectoral planning; Marine spatial planning is meaningful towards the goal of all Vietnamese sea areas being effectively managed and sustainably used in space, meeting the requirements of socio-economic development and national defense and security; suitable to natural conditions, socio-economy, resilience, environmental carrying capacity, marine and island ecosystems and fulfilling the goal of making Vietnam a rich and strong maritime nation in the spirit of the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress.

Local delegates attended the Conference.

Regarding the State visit to Vietnam by US President Joe Biden from September 10-11, 2023, based on information provided by Comrade Le Dinh Tinh, Director of the Department of Foreign Policy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, continue to widely disseminate the results of the visit to officials, party members and people; emphasizing: The results of the Vietnam - US Comprehensive Partnership over the past 10 years have been continuously consolidated and expanded, serving the interests of the people of the two countries, for peace and prosperity in the region and the world; Promoting similarities, looking towards the future; The two sides upgraded their relationship to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership for peace, cooperation and sustainable development, contributing to implementing the foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, diversification, multilateralization, comprehensive and extensive international integration; The visit also demonstrates Vietnam's consistent emphasis on developing relations with the United States, promoting cooperation results and continuing to promote the development of Vietnam-US relations to a new level, on the basis of fundamental principles of bilateral relations, including the principle of respecting international law, the United Nations Charter, political institutions, independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of each country...

In addition, regarding the dissemination of the socio-economic situation in the first 9 months of 2023, Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department Phan Xuan Thuy suggested highlighting the assessment of the world context, the situation in Vietnam; the leadership of the Party, the supervision of the National Assembly, the direction and administration of the Government in implementing the tasks of the first 9 months and key solutions for the fourth quarter of 2023. At the same time, note some contents in the dissemination of the 8th Central Conference of the 13th tenure; dissemination of the 6th Session of the 15th National Assembly; dissemination of the 13th Congress of the Vietnam Trade Union, term 2023 - 2028 and many other important contents.

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